A baby long-tailed macaque eats fruit offered during the annual monkey buffet festival at the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi, Thailand. The festival provides food and drinks to the local 2,000-strong monkey population, to thank them for drawing tourists to the town

An Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) and its calf in the Meghauli Chitwan forest, Nepal. The latest population count has shown that rhinoceros numbers have risen to 534 across Nepal from 435 animals in 2008, as attempts pay off to counter poaching for the rhino's highly priced horn

A newborn, endangered Eld's deer fawn stands with its surrogate mother at Khao Kheow open zoo in Chonburi province, east of Bangkok, Thailand. Thai veterinarians have successfully bred the world's first test tube Burmese Eld's deer in an attempt to increase the rare wildlife population in Thailand

This is the incredible moment a fox is captured nose-diving into deep snow to catch a mouse. Wildlife photographer Richard Peters took this picture while travelling through Lamar Valley in Yellowstone national park

The western falanouc (Eupleres goudotii major), an extremely rare carnivore endemic to Madagascar, was caught on film this week. The unusual creature was spotted by an Earthwatch volunteer who also managed to capture photographs of the animal